Detection of TBEV RNA in Ixodes ricinus ticks in north-eastern Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 689-692

  Biernat, Beata ^a   Cieniuch, Stella ^a   Stańczak, Joanna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ixodes ricinus; nRT PCR; Poland; TBEV; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; RNA, VIRAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; POLAND; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS DETECTION; ANIMALS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; GENETICS; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LARVA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIROLOGY;

IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; IXODES; LARVA; MALE; NYMPH; POLAND; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84915733755     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5604/12321966.1129915     Document Type: Article

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